Shocking Number Say End Times Have Arrived

New poll asks Americans if biblical prophecies being fulfilled

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More than 4 in 10 Americans, along with a full 77 percent of evangelicals, believe the biblical “end times” have arrived, according to a new poll.

The OmniPoll, conducted by the Barna Group, was commissioned by Jim Fitzgerald, author of “The 9/11 Prophecy” and creator of ”The WatchWORD Bible,” a video presentation of Scripture that includes the book of Revelation.

According to a report on the poll, the question was: “Do you, personally, believe that the world is currently living in the ‘end times’ as described by prophecies in the Bible, or not?”

Fitzgerald said he was surprised by the results, which found 41 percent of Americans agreeing that the end times are here.

“I thought the numbers could possibly be as low as 10 percent for the overall population and maybe 30 percent for Christians in general, or less. I had no way to know before the survey,” he said.

“But the response of the overall population was higher than what I expected from Christians, and the evangelicals’ response was nearly twice what I thought.”

The poll found that just over one in two Protestant adults believe the end times have arrived.

Catholics were at the other end of the spectrum, the poll report said, with 73 percent saying no. Practicing Catholics, however, registered considerably higher, with nearly 45 percent saying yes.

The results come from 1,000 online surveys among a representative sample of adults, ages 18 and older in the United States from July 29 through Aug. 1. The margin of error was plus or minuse-3.2 percentage points, at the 95 percent confidence level.

Fitzgerald said he almost decided not to follow through with the research.

“I wasn’t sure the findings would prove helpful or newsworthy,’ he said. “But this response is totally newsworthy, and I also know there may be more openness to my book’s message than I imagined. It took seven years to write, and I’m not sure that same openness would have been there when I started.”

In the poll, 54 percent of blacks said yes, as did 48 percent of Hispanics. Whites were at about 39 percent.

Also, married adults were slightly more likely to believe the world is in the end times (46 percent) than the national average. Families with children living at home responded just about the same.

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